From sandersson@cmu.edu Sat Nov 09 07:34:09 1996
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From: sandersson@cmu.edu (Steve Andersson)
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Subject: Data: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned.

It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay.
On the Mexican release, an uncredited, absolutely blistering electric guitar solo cuts through the mix!

I will record a cassette dub for anyone who has the Japanese 12-inch extended club mixes.

-- 
Steve Andersson -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS
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From sgirard@titech.ac.jp Mon Nov 11 06:05:09 1996
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From: sgirard@titech.ac.jp (Sun-mi Girard)
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Subject: Re: Data: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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In article <1996Nov09.073409.1458@cmu.edu>, sandersson@cmu.edu (Steve Andersson) writes:
> Got my hands on the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS (Gamma Discos / Orion México) and I am stunned.
> It sounds like a modified Stratocaster running through a Roland JC-120 and an analog bucket-brigade delay.

The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed.

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Sun-mi Girard
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From arobertson@hanse.de Tue Nov 12 09:34:09 1996
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From: arobertson@hanse.de (Anja Robertson)
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Subject: Re: Data: The Mexican pressing guitar solos on 'Gasoline Heart' and 'Threshold'
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:34:09 GMT
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In article <1996Nov11.060509.1988@titech.ac.jp>, sgirard@titech.ac.jp (Sun-mi Girard) writes:
> The rockero who recorded that solo vanished from Coyoacán on July 6, 1988, the night the election computers crashed.

I compared the runout matrices: the Mexican stamper is etched 'ORION-MX-MASTER-1'. It wasn't a bootleg, it was pressed from studio tapes.

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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Anja Robertson
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